Dear Colleagues,
first I like to change you for for participation in the discussion I’ve learned a lot. I started to write some kind of summary of my private research started with this discussion:
AGILE for SAP implementation? Yes of course!
I can conclude the discussion that is coming very often to the point of contract – and contracts are inevitable in business. And next post will be about contracts and the question: do the organization like to learn (and change as the result of learning) or likes to have clear and very detailed contract which de-facto assumes to change after years only as defined and excludes change being result of learning during the project? PRINCE2 and Agile are about to enable learning and change.
However talking about agility with respect to SCRUM – wthat is in fact very strict methodology - that is no wonder that incorporation of SCRUM by ASAP was made as compromise. I am fully commited to that SCRUM is bringing a lot of positive energy into SAP projects (because that all sexy-stuff like artifacts and rituals) and that was great idea and work to incorporate SCRUM into ASAP. I like use this opportunity to thank you Jan and your team for this!
The question if that is still SCRUM (in Agile ASAP) or not, is in my opinion not so important as the project methodology has to be effective in first, second and maybe also third line. If you will ask for my opinion: that is still SCRUM!